What to use now Google News API is deprecated? [closed]

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As part of a Project I'm working on I've been instructed to implement Google News API into a Web Application.

However, I've checked the Google News API site, and I see the following message:

Important: The Google News Search API has been officially deprecated as of May 26, 2011. It will continue to work as per our deprecation policy, but the number of requests you may make per day may be limited.

I've checked SO Questions but I've not been able to find a question related to the News API.

  • What should I use now that Google News API is redundant?
  • Is it the Custom Search API?
  • And if so, how can I make this relevant for just News Results for a particular query for my Web Application?

I've checked the Google News RSS, but this uses HTML in the description which won't work for my requirements as I just need the text.

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You can used R's tm.plugin.webmining package to extract news and text from GoogleNews (and others). More info @ cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tm.plugin.webmining/index.html – BlueMoon93
If you are looking for an API to crawl news from multi sources, you could consider Newsriver (newsriver.io). It's a very recent API to retrieve structured online news articles. Newsriver covers a large number of sources, and it's fully configurable. – Elia Palme
Try Faroo: faroo.com/hp/api/api.html – koppor
You can use a third party solution like this API: serpapi.com/news-results – Hartator
You can check for contextualwebsearch: rapidapi.com/contextualwebsearch/api/…. – Sumit A

3 Answers

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Depending on your needs, you want to use their section feeds, their search feeds

http://news.google.com/news?q=apple&output=rss

or Bing News Search.

http://www.bing.com/toolbox/bingdeveloper/

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I'm running into the same issue with one of my own apps. So far I've found the only non-deprecated way to access Google News data is through their RSS feeds. They have a feed for each section and also a useful search function. However, these are only for noncommercial use.

As for viable alternatives I'll be trying out these two services: Feedzilla, Daylife

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Looks like you might have until the end of 2013 before they officially close it down. http://groups.google.com/group/google-ajax-search-api/browse_thread/thread/6aaa1b3529620610/d70f8eec3684e431?lnk=gst&q=news+api#d70f8eec3684e431

Also, it sounds like they are building a replacement... but it's going to cost you.

I'd say, go to a different service. I think bing has a news API.

You might enjoy (or not) reading: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1864625